Big Game Hunting

Wyoming decreased tags by 11,300, Utah decreased deer tags by 1,000, and Oregon shut down controlled deer hunts. How is the rest of the West addressing the drought?

The author takes one of the largest archery grizzly bears of all time with a recurve bow

Check out one of the all-time craziest photo series ever sent to OutdoorLife.com

Sometimes you look back and marvel that a certain shot connected—like this one, on a big Stone ram

In this tale from the archives, a first-time sheep hunter survives a plane crash, then makes a terrifying stalk to take a massive ram

Sure, you can geek out on new or fancy cartridges for hunting sheep and mountain goats. But the truth is: Your deer rifle will probably work just fine

Wildlife experts have been predicting a mule deer extinction for decades. Luckily, no one seems to have told the deer

This story from the Outdoor Life archives comes from legendary Alaskan Frank Glaser. He tells some of his most memorable caribou tales from 40 years in Alaska

Illegally obtaining hunting permits and licenses is a form of poaching, say state wildlife officials

In this classic tale, Fred Bear takes a mountain goat and his first grizzly with his new razorhead broadheads—and it's all on film